Questions of Economy

[Alitan]

Just wondering: is there any (artificial) limitation on gold being passed around among PCs? That is, if I can convince Players A, B, and/or C that I'm so bright and shiny they should fork over a couple of hundred gp, and they DO, is that legal? Do we all just make the notations on our sheets and let it get reported to make it official?

Mind you, I haven't yet met the folks foolish enough to fork over a couple hundred gp on the basis of my bright and shiny... but I want to be ready if I do.

Thanks.

[Callarek]

Quote:

Purchasing Equipment and Spells

In Pathfinder Society Organized Play, you may never buy items from, sell items to, or trade items with another player. You may, however, allow another player to borrow an item for the duration of a scenario. You are also permitted to spend your character’s gold to help a party member purchase spellcasting services such as raise dead or remove disease.

Items, of course, includes gold.

[Michael Foster 989]

Basically the limitation is 0 gp

[Alexander_Damocles]

Now, I have heard of players getting folks to buy them a spare longbow or a few vials of alchemist fire, only to be handed back at the end of the adventure. Isn't always a bad idea to carry around something handy to share.

[WelbyBumpus]

Alexander_Damocles wrote:

Now, I have heard of players getting folks to buy them a spare longbow or a few vials of alchemist fire, only to be handed back at the end of the adventure. Isn't always a bad idea to carry around something handy to share.

True. I've ended up buying an item that makes another irrelevant; if I don't need the old item, I'll offer it for another PC's use for the session. Actual example, I decided on a cloak of elvenkind, but I'd previously bought a cloak of resistance +1; as I haven't yet needed the 500 gp from selling the cloak +1, I offer its use to anyone at the table that doesn't have a cloak yet.

[Alitan]

Thanks for the confirmations (I suspected something along the above lines, hence the thread).

[nosig]

I've got a Rogue that has one level of Wizard.... and a really big spell book.

Each time I sit at a table with another wizard (or witch, or alchemist) I pass over my "book" and say - "anything you got that I don't pass me back in a note". At the end of the adventure I add it to my book. Darn thing is getting EXPENSIVE - but you should see the way someones Eyes light up when they see I have 4th level spells (and lots of spells!).

Just my little part to help my fellow Pathfinders.... and keep me alive.

[Dragnmoon]

nosig wrote:

I've got a Rogue that has one level of Wizard.... and a really big spell book.

Each time I sit at a table with another wizard (or witch, or alchemist) I pass over my "book" and say - "anything you got that I don't pass me back in a note". At the end of the adventure I add it to my book. Darn thing is getting EXPENSIVE - but you should see the way someones Eyes light up when they see I have 4th level spells (and lots of spells!).

Just my little part to help my fellow Pathfinders.... and keep me alive.

Just so you know...

A Wizard cannot learn spells from Alchemist formulae book, but an Alchemist can learn from a Wizard's spellbook.

A Wizard cannot learn spells from a Witch’s Familiar, and a Witch cannot add spells to the Familiar from a Wizard's spellbook.

All 3 can learn spells from scrolls.

[nosig]

Thanks Dragn - I'd forgotten the part about the witch (not sure if I've given the book to a witch yet... guess I'll not bother now).

Knew the part about an alchemist thou, and I do hand the book over anyway. Gives him a greater chance at spells/formula (it's up to 2 Xcel pages now).

But they can't learn spells from scrolls my character has... even if I hand them the scroll, they can't use it to add to their spells.

[Dragnmoon]

nosig wrote:

But they can't learn spells from scrolls my character has... even if I hand them the scroll, they can't use it to add to their spells.

hmm, technically they Can, but the PFS rule of not "Giving" items to another player probably trumps that rule. Though you can "lend" items, it is hard to lend an item you can't get back because it is used up once the Alchemist puts the spell in his formulae book.

Edit: Though you can buy scrolls you can't use for other PCs to use, which is odd. I guess it matters if the players gets something from it or not.

[WalterGM]

Dragnmoon wrote:

nosig wrote:

But they can't learn spells from scrolls my character has... even if I hand them the scroll, they can't use it to add to their spells.

hmm, technically they Can, but the PFS rule of not "Giving" items to another player probably trumps that rule. Though you can "lend" items, it is hard to lend an item you can't get back because it is used up once the Alchemist puts the spell in his formulae book.

Edit: Though you can buy scrolls you can't use for other PCs to use, which is odd. I guess it matters if the players gets something from it or not.

It gets murky quick if we travel down the path of "if it can get used up you can't lend it," since that would deny the abundance of CLW wand sharing...

[Care Baird]

I often carry a few extra Ioun Torches around with me to lend to others in my party w/o light sources.

[nosig]

WalterGM wrote:

Dragnmoon wrote:

nosig wrote:

But they can't learn spells from scrolls my character has... even if I hand them the scroll, they can't use it to add to their spells.

hmm, technically they Can, but the PFS rule of not "Giving" items to another player probably trumps that rule. Though you can "lend" items, it is hard to lend an item you can't get back because it is used up once the Alchemist puts the spell in his formulae book.

Edit: Though you can buy scrolls you can't use for other PCs to use, which is odd. I guess it matters if the players gets something from it or not.

It gets murky quick if we travel down the path of "if it can get used up you can't lend it," since that would deny the abundance of CLW wand sharing...

I think this will actually fall in the "effects lasting outside the scenerio". So if he adds the spell from my scroll to his book, he would be able to use it IN THAT ADVENTURE, then it would go away at the end of the adventure. but - hay - I'm not going to do THAT anyway. Just share my spellbook.

[nosig]

Care Baird wrote:

I often carry a few extra Ioun Torches around with me to lend to others in my party w/o light sources.

LOL... my son once asked if his PC bought 1000 burned out Ioun stones, could his PC use them for concealment. We told him "only from the waste up, and it blocks your sight too".

[Jiggy]

nosig wrote:

Care Baird wrote:

I often carry a few extra Ioun Torches around with me to lend to others in my party w/o light sources.

LOL... my son once asked if his PC bought 1000 burned out Ioun stones, could his PC use them for concealment. We told him "only from the waste up, and it blocks your sight too".

What if he's a halfling? ;)